COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Personal glory doesn’t really excite A’ja Wilson all that much. The South Carolina senior is all about winning, especially after experiencing the thrill of claiming the NCAA championship last season. Thus, after scoring a career-high 32 points in a 94-86 victory over No. 15 Maryland on Monday night, Wilson declared: … Continue reading
BALTIMORE (AP) — Fellow police officers are testifying at a disciplinary hearing for a Baltimore police van driver. The hearing is expected to continue Wednesday for Officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the van in which 25-year-old Freddie Gray suffered a fatal injury after being arrested in April 2015. The police department is seeking to fire … Continue reading
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The widow of a man killed in a workplace shooting in Maryland said Thursday that her husband was so concerned about the gunman’s explosive temper that he brought it up in church prayer sessions. Bayarsaikhan Tudev was one of three people shot and killed Wednesday at a granite manufacturer in Edgewood, … Continue reading
BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday it won’t bring federal civil rights charges against six Baltimore police officers involved in the arrest and in-custody death of Freddie Gray, a young black man whose death touched off weeks of protests and unrest in the city. The officers were charged by state prosecutors … Continue reading
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The FBI is investigating the unprovoked stabbing of a black man at the University of Maryland as a possible hate crime after a white student who belonged to a racist Facebook group was arrested nearby with a knife in his pocket, police said. University of Maryland student Sean Christopher Urbanski … Continue reading
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s vice president and top aides delivered one overriding message Thursday to the thousands of conservative activists gathered for their annual conference outside of Washington: Don’t blow it. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Vice President Mike Pence said Trump’s victory provided the nation with what could … Continue reading
DARGAN, Md. (AP) — From John Brown’s raid to James Brown’s wail, a stream of hot-blooded American history runs through a 19th-century farmstead in the Appalachian foothills of western Maryland. The John Brown connection is well known. The restored log farmhouse near Dargan is where the abolitionist launched his ill-fated, 1859 seizure of a federal … Continue reading
FORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) — More than 450 Army National Guard soldiers from Virginia and Maryland are getting ready to deploy to the Middle East. The 29th Infantry Division, based at Fort Belvoir, is holding a departure ceremony Sunday morning. The soldiers have been training at Fort Pickett in Virginia, and will do another 30 … Continue reading
The Latest on Hermine (all times local): 7:43 p.m. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has taken to the air to survey damage caused by Hurricane Hermine. Scott used a Blackhawk helicopter on Friday to visit the towns of Cedar Key and Steinhatchee on the Gulf Coast. He saw the damage left from flooding and storm surge, … Continue reading
BALTIMORE (AP) — The judge in the trial of an officer charged in the death of a 25-year-old black man whose neck was broken in the back of a police van blasted prosecutors on Thursday for withholding information from the defense. In a hearing before Officer Caesar Goodson’s trial, Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams admonished … Continue reading
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Maryland’s assault weapons ban implicates its citizens’ core Second Amendment rights and must be reviewed under a more rigorous judicial standard than the one used by a judge who upheld the law’s constitutionality, a divided federal appeals court ruled Thursday. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals … Continue reading
BALTIMORE (AP) — A defense lawyer’s failure to call an alibi witness was a key point of contention as a convicted murderer returned to court Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, to argue he deserves a new trial in a case that gained fresh notoriety through the podcast “Serial.” A three-day hearing began in Baltimore for 35-year-old … Continue reading
BALTIMORE (AP) — Officer William Porter did nothing to help Freddie Gray as he lay helpless on the floor of a Baltimore police transport van complaining that he couldn’t breathe and pleading for a medic, prosecutors said. But defense attorneys painted a wholly different portrait of the young officer during opening statements Wednesday, December … Continue reading
BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on the trial of a police officer accused in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who suffered a spinal injury in the back of a transport van (all times local): 4 p.m. The state’s first witness in the trial for Officer William Porter is a woman who … Continue reading
DALLAS (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton won the endorsement of the Service Employees International Union on Tuesday, giving her the support of a labor powerhouse that backed President Barack Obama in 2008. The nation’s largest health care union represents about 2 million nurses, health care workers and other caregivers and is among the most ethnically … Continue reading
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